windows client won't connect to server

Submitted by jjgordon on 2011-12-13

I installed the webissues server 1.0-rc1on y domain hosted by DreamHost (webissues.mydomain.com).

After I made the 'data' subdirectory writable by everyone the server install went ok.
(If I didn't change permissions on the data dir the install failed.)
So I can login to the server via the web interface.

However, I cannot connect using the windows 0.9.7 client.
If I enter webissues.mydomain.com as the host, the client gives an error message that the host "is not a webissues server"

Similarly, I cannot use the client to login into demo.mimec.org using demo1/demo1.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug with the client?

JGordon

You need version 1.0 of the client.

Regards,
Michał

Thanks for the response.
I downloaded v 1.0 client and things are good.

However, I think I found a bug.
Using the windows client, I created a project, added regular users,
and edited my types and customized their attributes.
For example, I added a "Description" attribute to the "Bugs" type.
The Description attribute is of type 'text', value is required, and
there is no default value. I set min and max text lengths to
1 and 250 lines. (Could not set the min to 0, and could not set
the max > 250. Maybe make this configurable?)

As a regular user in the web client, I tried to create a bug
but could not if the Description filed had > 7 lines. I got an error in
red under the Description field: "Incorrect value: Text is too long."

Seems like the web client is not using the configured min and max
text sizes (no. lines)

Let me know if you can fix as I would like the freedom to put more
text in the description field!

BTW, Thanks for sharing this very nice application. Easy to install and good clean interface.
I look forward to using it and recommending to others.

James Gordon

The limit is actually in characters, not lines :). If you want longer text, use comments. Also there's no point in setting minimum length to 0 - just do not specify the minimum limit if you don't need it.

Regards,
Michał